by day the blue will pale down into white where it touches the white of the land, after sunset it has a new circumference-orange, melting upwards into tenderest purple. but the core of blue persists, and so it is by night. then the stars hang like lamps from the immense vault. the distance between the vault and them is as nothing to the distance behind them, and that farther distance, though beyond colour, last freed itself from blue. -e.m. forster (a passage to india)
Monday, February 7, 2011
our pine tree . . stump
i'm so glad they put caution tape around it, otherwise we wouldn't know to be cautious.
Well - in Europe we would expect Americans to be like that. What if someone stumbled over the stump, got hurt and decide suing someone was a good idea? (I'm happy I actually went to New York and discovered you have quite normal people living at your place....)
i'm so glad they put caution tape around it, otherwise we wouldn't know to be cautious.
Hilarous!
ReplyDeleteStill sad at the loss of your tree.
Well - in Europe we would expect Americans to be like that. What if someone stumbled over the stump, got hurt and decide suing someone was a good idea?
ReplyDelete(I'm happy I actually went to New York and discovered you have quite normal people living at your place....)
but, sadly, it's true christine. everyone here is afraid of being sued. sad, silly and exasperating.
ReplyDeleteyes, grace, i have to laugh. it is too funny!
Maybe it'll bite!
ReplyDeleteYou know what? I think it needs a little yarn-bombing. Some big, white teeth to really make people cautious!
ReplyDeletenow that's an idea!
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